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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match
Past the end of a remote mountain road, down a rutted dirt track, in a concrete house that lacked running water but bristled with smartphones, 13 members of an...
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niverse's First Moments Mimicked with ltracool Atoms
Cosmologists think that in its first moments, the Universe ballooned from a subatomic size to bigger than a grapefruit. But testing theories about this period is...
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Some Startups se Fake Data to Train AI
Berlin startup Spil.ly had a problem last spring. The company was developing an augmented-reality app akin to a full-body version of Snapchat's selfie filters—hold...
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Applying Network Analysis to Natural History
Researchers are using network analysis techniques popularized through social media applications to discover patterns in Earth's natural history.
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A First for Quantum Physics: Electron Orbitals Manipulated in Diamonds
Researchers have demonstrated a technique for engineering optical properties of defects in diamonds, providing a method of storing information that could be used...
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Machine-Learning System Processes Sounds Like Humans Do
Researchers have used a deep neural network to build the first model that can replicate human performance on auditory tasks such as identifying a musical genre....
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Future Wearable Device Could Tell How We Power Human Movement
A new technology could one day help tell whether tendon injuries are sufficiently healed for people to resume normal activities.
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The Search for niversal Memory
The search for a universal memory is aimed at ultimately replacing the entire computer memory hierarchy with a single technology.
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Researchers Deliver Open-Source Simulator for Cyberphysical Systems
Researchers have created a software framework to help developers design integrated mechanisms of computation, networking, and physical processes.
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Cracking the Crypto War
On December 2, 2015, a man named Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, opened fire on employees of the Department of Public Health in San Bernardino,...
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Who Controls Your Data?
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will change how companies and individuals collect, store and share data.
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Gaia Creates Richest Star Map of Our Galaxy - and Beyond
ESA's Gaia mission has produced the richest star catalogue to date, including high-precision measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars and revealing previously unseen...
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Developers Favoring AWS, Microsoft Azure for Cloud IoT Platforms
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are increasingly popular as cloud Internet of Things platforms.
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Study Shows First Computer-Driven Cars Will Have Noticeable Impact on Rush Hour
Adding even a few automated vehicles to traffic will positively influence all traffic flow, resulting in faster, smoother commutes for all drivers, according to...
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How Machine Learning Helped Surrey Develop a New Algorithm That Could Add More Life to Bridges
A new algorithm compresses big data from bridge monitoring systems into more manageable sizes.
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Celestial 'Snow' Flies in Wondrous Rosetta Comet GIF
You'll never stand on the surface of a comet, but here's how it might look and feel.
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Heat-Seeking Cameras Could Help Keep Self-Driving Cars Safe
After Uber's fatal self-driving crash last month in Tempe, Arizona, most observers had two basic question: Why did the car not see Elaine Herzberg crossing the...
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Enigma Machine Collection Recalls Computer Science Victory
Carnegie Mellon University will hire a researcher from the Library of Congress to help it decode a collection that includes two WWII German Enigma machines.
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Shrinking Machines, Cellular Computers
Scientists are using DNA and RNA to build the world's tiniest robots and computing devices.
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